Corn Flakes

Kellogg boosts prices: Kellogg Co. raised prices by 3.7 percent on most of its cereals, but for the second straight year exempted Corn Flakes. The company also said there would be no price increase on Frosted Flakes this year. Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes are two of Kellogg's biggest sellers.

May 2 (Reuters) - Kellogg Co reported lower quarterly earnings on Thursday, hurt by higher ingredient costs. The maker of Corn Flakes cereal, Keebler cookies and Eggo waffles said net income was $311 million, or 85 cents per share in the first quarter, down from $351 million, or 98 cents per share, a year earlier. Net sales rose to $3.86 billion from $3.44 billion a year earlier.

Kellogg blues: Kellogg Co., seeking to restore profit growth in the face of weak cereal sales, said it was considering closing part of a cereal plant in Battle Creek, Mich., in a move that could cost the jobs of 700 of the 1,100 employees there. The maker of Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies said it would make its final decision on the plant after meeting with the union that represents the plant's hourly workers. The closing could come as early as the first quarter of 2000,...

(Reuters) - Kellogg Co reported a narrower quarterly loss on Tuesday, helped by its purchase of Pringles, and stood by its full-year forecast as the world's largest cereal company aims to convince Wall Street that troubling product recalls are behind it. For Kellogg, 2012 was a transition year as it bought the Pringles snack business and reinvested in operations following several product recalls that shook investor confidence. For 2013, Kellogg, the maker of Corn...

Denmark has banned 18 vitamin-enriched Kellogg's products, saying they could be harmful if eaten regularly. Enriched versions of brands already on the Danish market including Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies could damage children's livers and kidneys, as well as the fetuses of pregnant women, officials said. Kellogg said it was puzzled by the action. ---------- Compiled from news services and edited by Patrick Olsen (polsen@tribune.com) and Drew Sottardi (dsottardi@tribune.com)

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Kellogg Co said on Thursday it expects reported net sales growth to be about 7 percent and earnings per share growth to be between 5 and 7 percent for 2013. The world's largest cereal maker also said it was sticking with its expectations for 2012. The maker of Corn Flakes, Eggo waffles and Keebler cookies said it continues to expect internal net sales growth of between 2 and 3 percent, a decline in internal operating profit of between 4...

Kellogg Co. is adding some snap and crackle to the already intensely competitive $8.1 billion U.S. cereal market. The leader in the ready-to-eat cereal market, with brands such as Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies, has said it will not raise the prices it charges grocers in the near future, despite increases by some other cereal firms, including the No. 2 cereral maker, General Mills Inc.

Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on the auction site eBay Friday night for $1,350. "We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen," said Melissa McIntire, 23. The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is the owner of a trivia Web site who wants to add the flake to a traveling museum. "We're starting a collection of pop culture and Americana items," said Monty Kerr of Austin, Texas. "We thought this was...

May 2 (Reuters) - Kellogg Co reported lower quarterly earnings on Thursday, hurt by higher ingredient costs. The maker of Corn Flakes cereal, Keebler cookies and Eggo waffles said net income was $311 million, or 85 cents per share in the first quarter, down from $351 million, or 98 cents per share, a year earlier. Net sales rose to $3.86 billion from $3.44 billion a year earlier.

Denmark has banned 18 vitamin-enriched Kellogg's products, saying they could be harmful if eaten regularly. Enriched versions of brands already on the Danish market including Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies could damage children's livers and kidneys, as well as the fetuses of pregnant women, officials said. Kellogg said it was puzzled by the action. ---------- Compiled from news services and edited by Patrick Olsen (polsen@tribune.com) and Drew Sottardi (dsottardi@tribune.com)

Q. We love to make this hash-brown casserole, but it is awfully rich and a couple of people in my family are cutting down on rich foods. Can you lighten this up so we can still enjoy it during the holidays? A. My in-laws also make a version of this hash-brown casserole during the holidays. This dish fills the house with a wonderful, savory smell as it bakes. Here's the deal on this traditional potato dish. In the potato mixture, the original recipe calls for adding 1/2...

This birthplace of Grape-Nuts and one-time home of health nuts is ground zero for snap-crackle-pop culture. If you grew up watching "Captain Kangaroo," "Huckleberry Hound," "The Monkees," "My Favorite Martian" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- and that's just for starters -- then you also viewed countless Kellogg's ads. Chances are you also sent in countless box tops for corn harmonicas and ate bowl after bowl of Corn Flakes and Sugar Corn Pops...

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Kellogg Co said on Thursday it expects reported net sales growth to be about 7 percent and earnings per share growth to be between 5 and 7 percent for 2013. The world's largest cereal maker also said it was sticking with its expectations for 2012. The maker of Corn Flakes, Eggo waffles and Keebler cookies said it continues to expect internal net sales growth of between 2 and 3 percent, a decline in internal operating profit of between 4...

Q. We love to make this hash-brown casserole, but it is awfully rich and a couple of people in my family are cutting down on rich foods. Can you lighten this up so we can still enjoy it during the holidays? A. My in-laws also make a version of this hash-brown casserole during the holidays. This dish fills the house with a wonderful, savory smell as it bakes. Here's the deal on this traditional potato dish. In the potato mixture, the original recipe calls for adding 1/2...

Kellogg Co., looking to snap its sagging cereal business back to life, said Wednesday it will eliminate about 765 jobs at its Battle Creek, Mich., headquarters and North America operations. The world's largest maker of ready-to-eat cereal expects the job cuts will save $105 million a year, starting in 1999. Kellogg said it would take one-time, after-tax charges in the fourth quarter of about $45 million, or 11 cents a share. The company earned $14.6 million, or 4 cents a diluted share, on revenues of...

Kellogg Co. hasn't given up on mega-model Cindy Crawford, but the Special K brand she has been touting has a new ad agency home as the embattled cereal giant, in a stunning move, is shuffling product assignments. Leo Burnett Co., whose relationship with Kellogg dates to 1949, is losing domestic ad responsibility for longtime flagship brand Corn Flakes, which it won in 1952, and for Special K, including Special K Plus. J. Walter Thompson Co.'s New York office picks up these brands...

You might call it breakfast at Tiffany's if you pay the full retail price for a box of ready-to-eat cereal. Kellogg's Rice Krispies, for example, is priced at 24 cents an ounce at a North Side store. That represents nearly 5 percent of the price of silver, which was fetching $5.21 an ounce in New York. Put another way, an ounce of silver won't buy two 15-ounce boxes of the cereal, priced at $3.59 each. And Rice Krispies isn't even among the more costly...

Kellogg blues: Kellogg Co., seeking to restore profit growth in the face of weak cereal sales, said it was considering closing part of a cereal plant in Battle Creek, Mich., in a move that could cost the jobs of 700 of the 1,100 employees there. The maker of Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies said it would make its final decision on the plant after meeting with the union that represents the plant's hourly workers. The closing could come as early as the first quarter of 2000,...